The US Department of Commerce houses the patent and trademark office, whose mission is to protect our nation’s innovators and their intellectual property. Above our entrance is inscribed a quote from Abraham Lincoln: “The patent system added fuel to the fire of genius.”
But today the American patent system and the American genius it protects are under serious attack.
Intellectual property theft and expropriation costs US businesses as much as $600bn a year, according to the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property.
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